It was funny that he tried defending Agamemnon looksmaxxing by saying that there are “a few blackened bronze daggers, and they’re expensive, so a rich guy would want to show off how alien he is and create distance between him and his men”.
…but then nobody is wearing historically accurate armour in the first place, so the “historically plausible” argument is meaningless! They’re all in blackened armour, just mudcore style - because he’s making a Serious Movie, but historical stories are actually silly, so he has to fix it and give it some goddamn gravitas.
Agamemnons black armor would be cool if he were the only one with that style. It would say a lot about the character if he were running around like some tacticool looksmaxxing operator, while everyone else had rad as fuck colourful equipment. But that wouldn’t be cool I guess
Yeah if it established that baseline of authenticity then it would make Darth Clavicular an interesting bit of fantastic-realism and the speculation would be about how fuckin’ hard it would be to make back then.
…actually I just want films to come with three-hour long making-of documentaries where they go into all the armour work and explain how they made the nice things with real materials and period techniques, and I want them to hire me to make belt buckles and buff the shiny bronze pauldrons, and I want to save a bunch of pieces from the dumpster and fill my house like a packrat who lives in a museum so I can sleep on a pile of cuirasses.
This is my real reason for not liking mudcore stuff, everything else is justification.
It was funny that he tried defending Agamemnon looksmaxxing by saying that there are “a few blackened bronze daggers, and they’re expensive, so a rich guy would want to show off how alien he is and create distance between him and his men”.
…but then nobody is wearing historically accurate armour in the first place, so the “historically plausible” argument is meaningless! They’re all in blackened armour, just mudcore style - because he’s making a Serious Movie, but historical stories are actually silly, so he has to fix it and give it some goddamn gravitas.
So much weaker than Yoko Taro’s “I just like it”.
Agamemnons black armor would be cool if he were the only one with that style. It would say a lot about the character if he were running around like some tacticool looksmaxxing operator, while everyone else had rad as fuck colourful equipment. But that wouldn’t be cool I guess
Yeah if it established that baseline of authenticity then it would make Darth Clavicular an interesting bit of fantastic-realism and the speculation would be about how fuckin’ hard it would be to make back then.
…actually I just want films to come with three-hour long making-of documentaries where they go into all the armour work and explain how they made the nice things with real materials and period techniques, and I want them to hire me to make belt buckles and buff the shiny bronze pauldrons, and I want to save a bunch of pieces from the dumpster and fill my house like a packrat who lives in a museum so I can sleep on a pile of cuirasses.
This is my real reason for not liking mudcore stuff, everything else is justification.
Use historically accurate armor.